We had to read the book in 6th grade and I refused because I'd already seen Bakshi's version (and a few of his other films). So so good. I truly value him as an animator and I'm still mad at the outcome of Cool World.

To me, another misstep is that a lot of these adaptations ignore minority authors. I get the whole "it's what the majority wants" argument, but adolescents aren't dumb and I know they'd love to see something else other than the basic formula. There are so many books I can think of that'd be great in any visual format…

And I think that's a major part of the difficulty of translating books to screen; studios like easy continuity and especially for those who haven't read the books, they're not going to see the relevance. It's cool when you're reading but in a movie it makes things more confusing.

A Wrinkle in Time was one of my favorite books; however it might be difficult given its age. It's a no brainer for fans of the genre but I don't know if current YA readership will attach.

Thank you so much for this!

This wasn't necessarily scary to me, however another of Henson's creations that were in The Witches with Angelica Huston….endless nightmares. Her mouse-witch form looked like the personification of herpes…

But great claymation effects! Maybe I was weird but the first thing I always noticed was the quality of animation. And forget the heads, what creeped me out the most was the weird Victorian-esque mental hospital place Dorothy was

Same, when I watched it, I finished it but I was bored at the same time, felt like there could've been a lot more character development on Jen's part.

It didn't hit me until recently that it was set in Charlotte or the constant HBCU cameos (the NCCU pennants on the walls in the living room). I remember everything else though, even if it was on 13 episodes long. Sucks that Nickelodeon is basically a shell of itself these days, if I'm not mistaken many of their shows…